Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... Thefe obfervations are to be confidered not as un- exceptionably constant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be fmooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggednefs or ...
... Thefe obfervations are to be confidered not as un- exceptionably constant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be fmooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggednefs or ...
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... Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the hiftory of our language , and the true force of our words , can only be preferved , by keeping the text of ... thefe thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour ; if PREFACE .
... Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the hiftory of our language , and the true force of our words , can only be preferved , by keeping the text of ... thefe thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour ; if PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour ; if only a word was transposed , or a particle inferted or omitted , I have ... thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour; if ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour ; if only a word was transposed , or a particle inferted or omitted , I have ... thefe I have not exercised the fame rigour; if ...
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... Thefe divifions were probably his own , as they are made on fettled prin- ciples , which would hardly have been the cafe , had the task been executed by the players . A change of scene , with Shakespeare , moft commonly implies a change ...
... Thefe divifions were probably his own , as they are made on fettled prin- ciples , which would hardly have been the cafe , had the task been executed by the players . A change of scene , with Shakespeare , moft commonly implies a change ...
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... thefe were founded on the fuppofition , that Shakespeare was originally an author correct in the utmost degree , but maimed and interpolated by the neglect or prefumption of the players . In confequence of this belief , alte rations ...
... thefe were founded on the fuppofition , that Shakespeare was originally an author correct in the utmost degree , but maimed and interpolated by the neglect or prefumption of the players . In confequence of this belief , alte rations ...
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Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...